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Two months after, Kaduna records another military aircraft crash

Barely two months after a Nigerian military plane crashed in Kaduna killing Nigeria’s army chief, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others including top...

Withdraw media gag order on terrorist attacks reportage, SERAP tells Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has received an urgent appeal to direct relevant agencies of government to immediately withdraw a gag order banning journalists and...

July 3 Police killing of teenage girl at Lagos Yoruba Nation rally: Comedian Macaroni donates N500,000 to family

“The family despite their state of mourning have been told to bear all responsibilities. This is heartbreaking” More than two weeks after the...

U.S. Monkeypox case from Nigeria: NCDC says no cause for alarm, no fresh outbreak of virus

…says it will continue to detect and respond to these cases in Nigeria as with other epidemic prone diseases The Nigeria Centre...

U.S. alerts of Monkeypox, potentially serious viral illness, ‘imported’ from Nigeria through an airline passenger

The U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has alerted that a rare case of human Monkeypox that was detected in Texas,...

Emir of Kano to Buhari: Nigerians are hungry, suffering

“We hope the presidential aides would continue to advise the President on the condition and wellbeing of the poor masses, especially in those...

N1.4bn laundering charge: ex-NBA President Usoro discharged and acquitted

At last, justice appears to have been served in the two-year trial of a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul...

Choir mistress, female church member held me as ‘pastor’ raped me, 21-year-old hairdresser alleges

“Few minutes after she got inside the room, Daniel locked the door and increased the volume of the Television set, while Ms Favour...

Journalist Bunmi Afuye’s killing: Security operatives must act fast —Ondo NUJ

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, says it has received the gruesome killing of a member, Olubunmi Afuye, in a...

Restive bandits’ operation claims Nigerian Army General

Bandits have continued to unleash their reign of terror on the high and low with the latest fatal shooting of Nigeria’s Army General....

The Day in Pictures: EFCC launches Eagle Eye app at EFCC Headquarters, Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC, has launched an App, Eagle Eye, designed to ease the process of reporting economic and financial...

July 20, July 21 are Sallah holidays, says FG

In commemoration of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir, the Federal Government has announced Tuesday and Wednesday next week (July 20 and July 21, 2021) as...

Couple bags three years in jail for starving, incarcerating 12-year-old niece in fridge for eight months

Emmanuel Bassey and his wife, Esther, have been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Sokoto Magistrates’ Court for starving and confining their...